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With the Turks in Palestine

With the Turks in Palestine

Aaronsohn, Alexander
Pascoe, Robert

Paperback

Series: History Matters, Book 2

Israel & Palestine History

ISBN10: 1925501523
ISBN13: 9781925501520
Publisher: Connor Court Pub
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

This pithy 18,000-word book, unashamedly propagandistic, began life as a pair of Atlantic Monthly articles published in New York in July and August 1916, during the middle year of the Great War. The United States was still neutral in this War. The Western Front was a bloody quagmire, with neither side able to press an advantage. And the Ottomans were squaring off against the British in Palestine. The original title for this pair of articles was 'Saïfna Ahmar, Ya Sultan!', a traditional Turkish war-cry which literally translates as, 'Our swords are red, O Sultan!' It is an ironic reference, as the text is an indictment of the Ottoman leadership in the war, fighting on four fronts, and its government of Palestine, then a backwater of the Empire. Of course, the Sultan had lost his power during the Young Turks revolt of 1909, and the Empire had been at war since 1912, when it lost the Balkans.

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